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Rose is the story of a sixteen-year-old pregnant, Indigenous teen who is pulled from her community and placed in a church to be overseen in her last months of pregnancy. When she delivers her child, it will be taken from her and put into a Canadian home by decree of an Indian Agent, Mr. Byrne. Rose has a secret and will not tell anyone the identity of the baby's father - not even her family. It is later revealed that the father of her child is a young Mohawk man, named Michael, who wants to keep the child in the community.

Endless days of cold snow. The crisp air hugs my body, The trees I live next to remain dormant throughout the winter. I stare up at them, excited to see the Spring shift. I tell them, I love you. I’m waiting for Spring. I’m waiting for Organ Rhythms Under the Rain. Camera: Bolex Medium: 16mm Montreal during Winter

Two filmmakers exchange impressions of the place and the moment through film-letters, supported by a soundtrack that oscillates between real and immaterial. The sounds then become narration and carry the moving images of an encounter that takes shape according to the 16mm reels that alternate from one to the other.

A stop-motion meditation on the inevitability of death, dedicated in loving memory to Gravy, the Nebelung gremlin kitty.

Digital footage of the river near the filmmaker's childhood home is laser-printed directly onto 16mm film, creating a shifting, liquified halftone. Memory dissolves into the texture of time. The printing bleeds onto the optical sound strip, the image obscuring the soundtrack. The landscape is impossible to return to.

An old dairy farmer loses himself in a violent blizzard in search of one of his cows. As supernatural occurrences lead him further into the night, he must come to face his own mortality and inevitable demise.

The effects of trauma can be felt in even the most mundane circumstances.

A pleasant rabbit named Barry and his best friend and pet dog, Melon, embark on a walk to meet a friend for tea. Along the way they learn to appreciate the environment that they call home.

A dance film about life, embodiment of the wild.

A chaotic snowstorm is contrasted with the quiet interior of a cottage in western Ontario. Cottage Movie was shot using a JVC GZ-MG330 and a Sony DCR-DVD101E.

Léonard, a perfectionist but simple man, has a terrible secret.

A visual and sonic experimental short punctuated by disco and an intergenerational dialogue on HIV/AIDS in the 2020s.

Six survivors of the Marieval Indian Residential School on the Cowessess 73 reserve are devastated by the discovery of 751 unmarked graves on the grounds of their former school. They return to reflect, pay their respects and seek change.

Débâcle (a french term referring to spring ice breakups) draws its inspiration from the shifting courses of the St-Lawrence river during wintertime. Through a search for the vast ice patch which usually clings to the Quebec North Shore coastline during the colder months, Débâcle bears witness to climate change and the fragility of our coastal territory.

"Wayfinding" is a pictorial and auditory essay that operates as a companion piece to the artist’s full-length album of the same title, released on the New-York-based minimalist label 12k. The film and the album are studies that consider slow shifts and personal changes experienced by the artist over the past several years. The film focuses on isolation and a gradual reflective turn inward as it attempts to navigate interior domestic landscapes, acknowledging the complexity of the inner realm, whose small transformations and movements can be as profound as macroscale developments in the outside world. – Christopher Bissonnette

Art-house cinema is dying. Many Independent theatres sit vacant as would-be patrons amble past extinguished marquees. At night, they come to life. The lights, the popcorn, the magic of the cinema. But in the age of "home streaming", is this experience enough? Only you, the viewer, can decide.

Sessions in Grief is a film about the acceptance of a new identity and self, and the grieving of ones past.

Gladys Lou hurls home-made images of herself against a swift torrent of loading files, digital code and the general barrage of representational media imagery saturating daily life online. The features of faces and bodies merge and split apart, ceaselessly. Human identity is caught and fixed in normative binary categories, but the ‘glitch’ strategies of artists can struggle against the system, creating new notions of rhizomatic selfhood.

Few people in the climbing world know Emilie Pellerin, yet the Canadian climber has made a big name for herself in onsight climbing in recent years. This type of climbing involves ascending a route completely on the first attempt—without stopping and, of course, without a single fall. With La Zébrée, a 5.14-rated overhanging crack climb in Quebec, she takes on her biggest onsight challenge yet.

Examines a group of young men in Toronto trying to find their way. Through lack of opportunity, they turn to life as a crime-however, problems arise such as money, relationships, and enemies.

The mighty Yukon river flows through Eric Nicolier’s life in the far north. Mushing, rafting, carpentering, and playing music is Eric’s way of composing his life of reverie.

When a driving instructor and his student have a terrible accident on the road, will they be able to outrun their conscience and the menacing insurance company?

A father and son set out on a harrowing quest to defeat a looming beast.

A man searches for love with the help of a mysterious puzzle.

Through a cacophony of limbs, members, and sounds drawn from the party and play scene, Mikiki speaks with other drug users about the possibilities of representing the pleasure of substance use beyond the framework of harm.

Handmade optical sounds and drawing directly to 35mm film. Two abstract energies fall in love, unite as one then disappear into a vanishing point.

Looking at yourself not existing: a psychotic journey through the digital caused by the repetitive daily life of confinement.

A band of totally professional pirates attempts to fix their ship.

Katy struggles to accept her culture due to her fear of judgment from her friends.

“What is 500 years to 10,000 if there cannot be 500 more” Its amazing you exist asks this question as it documents the present tense of my home in northwestern Alberta. Snapshots of Children, the remaining northern prairie grassland, and harvesting potatoes in my nohkum and nomisoms yard overlay an original score and musings of buffalo not-so-long-gone.

A married woman is plagued by lost memories of her husband, which seem to be tied to a nail on the crown of her skull.

A young woman pays tribute to her late husband by hanging photos on a wall and reminiscing old memories.

A short musical film that imagines the experience of a teacher and students who witnessed the great fire at the Quaker Oats factory in 1916 from their classroom at King George Public School in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. Years later, ghosts of memories appear for an older man who vows peace. It features musical performances by singers Marsala Lukianchuk, Rob Fortin and a cast of children.

This thoughtful, eye-opening documentary by Toronto’s Karen Chapman asks whether a community plagued by gun violence can find a way forward via an unexpected solution: mindfulness and meditation.

Nolan and Evan go for a hike in the mountains.

Just a litle stop-motion video i made for my 10th grade Media Arts class

What awaits you after your final breath? That is an answer only known by Death.

Two Disillusioned Drifters ,Wanna hit the jackpot by robbing the bank in Bloodstone City

We can speed up the development of space allowing more renewable energy to compete, heal the environment and develop more efficient antimatter propulsion at a cheaper cost. Warp drive research is based in nature and theory.

After a near death overnight hiking experience, Eman, a Queer Egyptian woman, shares her healing journey of re-exploring the magnificent outdoors. Through the power of vulnerability, compassion and community, Eman ventures to the same overnight hike 4 years later nothing is impossible. As a BIPOC LGBTQ2S community member, she advocates for diversity, equity and inclusion through storytelling.

A letter from my friend Alfred Vander. Though when we met he was Fred Pelon, anarchist super 8 filmmaker, a prolific machine of thoughts and pictures, growing fungi on film, and on the archaic behaviours of the state. But it turned out that film was only the next stage in a life dedicated to reinvention. In this brief post, he describes his new normal, no longer living in a boat but a monastery, working as a caregiver, a gardener, a bridge keeper. As the pandemic waxes on, and my relationships to fringe movie practices and places that used to be central feel increasingly abstract, as if part of some faraway dream, these spare lines offer new hope, and the ongoing consolation of friendship.

Mela Jaloos (Translation: Festival Procession, in Urdu) is a 13-minute art film that embarks upon a speculative queer Muslim journey of celebration, resistance, and protest. Taking a performance-based approach, the film uses poetic and hybrid means to present a kaleidoscope of influences that are rooted in Sufi histories, queerness, and life in Lahore, Pakistan.

Self-taught seamstress Brenna Bezanson, a change-maker who challenges capitalist and patriarchal ideals in the custom clothes she creates, takes us through her wardrobe of hand-made garments, each a journal entry, talisman, and bit of magic she wears out into the world.

SHOW DE BLEU explores the “smoke show” (burn-out) as a filial ritual.

Through three scientists, viewers embark on a journey through the wetlands, discovering the importance of specialized wetland ecosystems, which store concentrated amounts of carbon and offer habitat for endangered wildlife. One MoorFutures expert is determined to find marketable solutions in nature conservation through the world's first carbon certificate program dedicated to rewetting the peatlands. With its meditative approach, the film explores alternatives to reforestation schemes and holistic understandings of nature.

Adam and her sibling Khadija share unspoken trauma. Traversing a winding road of emotions, they finally find mutual understanding.

A painter who is ambitious to make a masterpiece gets into a slump because his eagerness becomes an obsession.

When Mariana connects the Military Dictatorship's violent legacy as the structure behind Brazilian families, she embarks on an introspective journey to deconstruct her family life growing up in Brazil.

An original video diary documenting the director's efforts to have artificial insemination. Cuthand describes his desire to have children of his own and the difficult journey he must take to have them, a journey that is also closely tied to his membership in Canada's First Nations and thus to the question of preserving his indigenous culture.

Peaks and Valleys is a feature-length documentary following Nick Noble and Rebecca Beitner in their directorial debuts as they navigate the highs and lows of Type 1 Diabetes and the Vancouver Island Trail (VIT), in the traditional territory of the Coast Salish, Nuu-Chah-Nulth, and Kwakwaka'wakw people. The VIT is a new trail, and Nick and Becca are among the first hikers to attempt to hike the route in one six-week trip. The story of Nick's experience with diabetes throughout his life is interwoven with the challenges of managing it in a backcountry environment, bringing information and insight about a chronic health condition that is reasonably common yet misunderstood by many people. The mountains, forests, and coastlines of Vancouver Island are brought to life by original art, animation, and photography by the filmmakers, both of whom are multidisciplinary visual artists. Peaks and Valleys will appeal to lovers of nature, adventure, art, and disability justice.

Is Canada the country you think or that you hope it is? No. Indigenous mascots are a celebration of the North American Indigenous genocide.

Muslim women are disconcerting, intriguing, polarizing-and straitjacketed by conflations of ideas in front-page stories. While the media tend to portray them as submissive and silenced, filmmaker Saïda Ouchaou-Ozarowski has chosen to distance herself from that caricature, with which she does not identify. She sat down with six Muslim Canadian women eager to talk about what shapes their identities. The resulting documentary, In Full Voice, offers an intimate perspective on the journey of these women, who have a common desire to share their visions of Islam.